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Yahoo! tries to hold onto top spot for Web-based e-mail services.

The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)

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Byline: Tricia Bishop

Jun. 29--Joey Chuasiriporn got a bonus in his Web-based e-mail this month: 25 times more space. His free Yahoo! Inc. inbox had jumped from about 4 megabytes to 100 megabytes, enough to hold 50,000 pages of text.

"I was really surprised," said the 27-year-old from Timonium, Md. He wasn't sure he liked the e-mail's new look at first, but welcomed the fact he wouldn't have to delete old messages as quickly.

"I'm going to probably keep more pictures, that's the one thing I'm definitely going to do with the newfound space," said Chuasiriporn, a pro golfer like his sister Jenny Chuasiriporn.

The increase is the computing industry's latest response to the potential threat from "Gmail." That's the Web…

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